London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

City of London 1894

Report on the sanitary condition of the City of London for the year 1894

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106
one can help observing without the deepest
interest.
The Fishmongers Company, acting under
the provisions of an ancient Charter (2nd
James the First, 30th August, 1604), keep as
heretofore an active supervision over the fish
trade in the City, and of the 128,361 tons
delivered at Billingsgate during the year, thenInspectors
(designated “Fish Meters”) condemned
and destroyed in round figures 1,220
tons, or about A per cent. ; the whole of the
expenses incurred being borne by the Company.